Recreating a Silly 1940's Hat // Floral Tilted Toppers

Today I'm recreating a vintage hat style seen in one of my Alden's mail order catalogs from Spring/Summer 1946! Is it ridiculous? Yes. Do I want to wear it here in suburbia just for the looks on folks faces? Also yes. Follow along as I make what Alden's called a "Bewitching Floral Disk"... A terminology note, the term fascinator did not exist in the 1940's! All hats were just...hats. From Wikipedia: "The use of the term "fascinator" to describe a particular form of late 20th- and early 21st-century millinery emerged towards the end of the late 20th century, possibly as a term for 1990s designs inspired by the small 1960s cocktail hats, which were designed to perch upon the highly coiffed hairstyles of the period. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a use of the word (in quotation marks) from the Australian Women's Weekly of January 1979, but here it appears to have been used in a slightly variant sense, to describe a woman's hat incorporating a small veil (in other words, a cocktail hat). However, the term was certainly in use in its modern sense by 1999." Fun facts! My Pinterest board of hats:   / hats-hats-hats   A tutorial for how to make the black velvet pillbox: http://theclosethistorian.blogspot.co... http://theclosethistorian.blogspot.co... Millinery wire purchased from Humboldt Haberdashery: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HumboldtHab... Vintage flowers and buckram bases from A Pink Swan: https://www.etsy.com/shop/APinkSwan Velvet tubing ribbon from Rolz of Trim: https://www.etsy.com/listing/98515000... Petershams, a UK based hatting supplier: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Petershams Music and Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound. Where I get my pattern drafting paper: http://atlaslevy.com/Paper_c_13.html (not sponsored) More from me? Want to help me continue making more videos? Listen to me ramble on in a monthly podcast? Watch an additional project video each month? Peruse my Patreon here:   / theclosethistorian   Blog: http://theclosethistorian.blogspot.com/ Instagram:   / theclosethistorian   Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheClosetHi... Pinterest:   / bmesposito   Tumblr:   / theclosethistorian   Beauty Instagram:   / thehistoriansvanity   Beauty Channel:    / thehistoriansvanity   But wait there's more! A PO BOX finally wahoo! First, a disclaimer: So many of you have kindly offered to send me things, including vintage items you may have inherited, and I am so honored you would think of me and of course I do adore vintage treasures, however, unfortunately I only have so much storage space currently! So there is a chance that if something just wont work for me, or doesn't fit me etc, that I may not be able to keep all of your lovely things. Please only send things if you are okay with the possibility that I may donate items I just cannot keep. If you would prefer I put things that I can't keep into the TCH Etsy shop to help raise funds for me and the channel, please specify this in a note or letter in your parcel. Thank you so much! Bianca Esposito PO Box 632177 Highlands Ranch, CO 80163 Thank you for watching!